I'm a relative newbie, and I'm installing OpenOffice 2.3 from the tar.gz file from the openoffice.org site (as version 2.3 is not in the repositories yet).

I've found the installation instructions confusing - at first wasn't sure whether it was installation from source (apparently not). But following the instructions for Linux RPM-based Installation, I found the instruction to cd into the RPMS directory and then Delete any rpm files that do not apply to your system. For example, on a Fedora Core 3 system, delete any rpms specific to another distribution such as openofficeorg-suse-menus-1.9.79-1.noarch.rpm.

So my question is, of the files listed below... which rpm files do I need to delete?

Note: I'm running the Gnome version of Mandriva 2008-One (installed from mandriva-linux-2008-one-GNOME-cdrom-i586.iso)

I assume I need to delete openoffice.org-kde-integration-2.3.1-9238.i586.rpm (as I'm not using KDE) but other than that I don't have any idea.

Hello - I don't think you should delete any of those listed rpms as they are not obviously distro specific. Just install and see what happens.

01-18-2008

poti

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Originally Posted by Chriswaterguy

I'm a relative newbie, and I'm installing OpenOffice 2.3 from the tar.gz file from the openoffice.org site (as version 2.3 is not in the repositories yet).

I've found the installation instructions confusing - at first wasn't sure whether it was installation from source (apparently not). But following the instructions for Linux RPM-based Installation, I found the instruction to cd into the RPMS directory and then Delete any rpm files that do not apply to your system. For example, on a Fedora Core 3 system, delete any rpms specific to another distribution such as openofficeorg-suse-menus-1.9.79-1.noarch.rpm.

So my question is, of the files listed below... which rpm files do I need to delete?

Note: I'm running the Gnome version of Mandriva 2008-One (installed from mandriva-linux-2008-one-GNOME-cdrom-i586.iso)

I assume I need to delete openoffice.org-kde-integration-2.3.1-9238.i586.rpm (as I'm not using KDE) but other than that I don't have any idea.

They refer to the subdirectory RPMS/desktop-integration

But you don't need to delete any rpm. Juste install the right one for your distribution
i.e. openoffice.org-mandriva-menus-2.3-9238.noarch.rpm

01-19-2008

daark.child

If you are not using KDE, then its ok to delete the KDE integration rpm (I always delete the GNOME one because I use KDE). You should make sure you uninstall your old version of openoffice (using the gui package manager or urpmi) and then do something like